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I have relocated this cache to the outside of the fence because there is now a no trespassing sign on the gate.
You are looking for a bison tube. The hours for the cemetery are 8am-7pm in the summer and 8am-5pm in the winter.
Here is some information about Clement Letot, the cemetery and about Letot, Texas
LETOT, CLEMENT (1836-1907). Clement Letot, town founder and the only citizen of Dallas County to serve in the Crimean War, son of Sylvan and Colombe Letot, was born in Burgundy on October 22, 1836. There he learned the machinist's trade. His father and grandfather fought in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1854 he enlisted in the French navy and served as a machinist on a ship in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. He jumped ship in New York in 1860 and made his way to Chicago, where he worked for three years as a machinist. He then moved to La Salle County, Illinois, where he purchased a 640-acre farm on the Fox River near his parents and farmed for the next thirteen years. He married another French immigrant, Nathle (or Nathalie) Barnard, in May 1861. In December 1876 he sold the farm and traveled with his wife to Dallas County, Texas, where he eventually bought 1,200 acres, built a substantial residence, and established the town of Letot in northern Dallas County. He owned the general store, served as the postmaster, and built an interdenominational church that doubled as the schoolhouse. He had nine children. Two of his sons invented the two-row cotton planter, and one of his daughters married a member of the first Dallas school board. Letot died in Dallas in 1907 and was buried in the family cemetery.
Letot Cemetery
A native of France and a veteran of the Crimean War, Clement LeTot (b.1836) settled in northwest Dallas County in 1874. He was the founder and leading citizen of the town of Letot, which was established in 1881 along the rail line. As was the custom of early Texas pioneers, Letot set aside a plot of his land for the burial of family members. The first burials here were for his sons Theodore (d.1884) and Paul (d.1885). Letot was buried beside his sons in 1907. Now a part of the City of Dallas, the Letot Cemetery represents an important part of Dallas County's ethnic heritage
LETOT, TEXAS. Letot was at the intersection of Lombardy Lane and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, seven miles northwest of Dallas in northeastern Dallas County. It was on the original land grant of J. S. Shelby. Clement Letot, settled and cultivated a large farm in the area of Calvary Hill Cemetery. By 1878 the Dallas and Wichita Railway had been built from Dallas to Lewisville, and the first stop was in the area of Letot's farm. A community began to form around the stop, named for Letot. By 1881 the community had twenty-one families, most of whom were farmers, a general store and cotton gin owned by Letot, a post office that remained until 1907, and a nondenominational church that served as a schoolhouse during the week. In 1882 the population stood at 200, and the community had begun to ship cotton and grain. In 1884 Letot had a doctor, a wagonmaker and carpenter, a blacksmith, a teacher, several livestock traders, and a population of forty. By 1890 the population had risen to sixty, and the community had a corn mill. Letot grew to an estimated population of 150 in 1939. The number of businesses also increased from three in 1931 to six in 1939. In 1950 the town had a population of 500 and seventeen businesses. The last listing for Letot is in 1968, when the population was 540. By the 1970s the community was part of Dallas.
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